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China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner
Hugh Pickens writes "China's domestic airlines will need to buy an estimated 4,330 new aircraft valued at $480 billion over the next two decades to meet demand in commercial aviation. Now the LA Times reports that the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China expects to begin producing its 156-seat C919 by 2016, competing with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320. China has staked billions of dollars and national pride on the effort but what may surprise some Americans worried about slipping US competitiveness is that some well-known US companies are aiding China, putting US and European suppliers in a tough spot: Be willing to hand over advanced technology to Chinese firms that could one day be rivals or miss out on what's likely to be the biggest aviation bonanza of the next half a century. 'If they launch a commercial aviation industry, you've got to be part of it,' says Roger Seager, GE Aviation's vice president and general manager for China, whose company has garnered contracts worth about $6 billion for the C919. 'You can't take a pass and come back in 10 years.'"
It's one thing to buy cheap Chinese made consumer electronics goods, but would you really want to risk your life in an aircraft? They cant even get products specifically destined for children right without someone unscrupulous substituting something inferior or deadly (lead paint, melamine). Unfortunately as a country they have a long way to go to rebuild their reputation.
Criticism of Israel? You must not be in the US.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
The Great China freakout has just begun invite your family, friends, neighbors and country. Shout to the rooftops, take our country back and bla bla bla! I really find it amusing when we in the west get the best of others we call it capitalism, invoke rules, international norms and all shades of bullshit. When we are losing we go: "putting US and European suppliers in a tough spot". Some even add a good dose of human rights drama to it, just to massage our sorry asses. But deep down we all know the truth, which is: the party is over make your peace with it. Electing Mr. Magic Negro will NOT save your sorry ass and that's not why i voted for him. Can you count how many technologies we stole from China or other civilizations? Where should we start from? How much did we pay for it? Ha ha ha...i get it, you have invented patents and flimsy laws expecting some idiots to take it seriously good luck with it. Even China will rise and fall, the next will will rise and fall, and so on...its the way of things ha ha ha
When the planes are rolling off the assembly lines and ready for passengers, what happens is that minibuses roll up to the homes of the leaders of passenger jet corporation. Some nice men in a smart uniforms collect the family from their home and drive them to the airstrip connected to the plant.
At the plant, a few families are loaded onto a half-dozen planes awaiting delivery. The planes are then flown to the delivery point specified by the airlines and the families get joy ride on the newest product of the prosperous new passenger jet industry! The leaders of the passenger jet industry get to stand with party leaders, watching their families take off in the new planes they worked diligently to ensure were safe and well-made.
If the planes are unsafe or crash, such a tragedy for the airline leaders to lose their families! But since they didn't ride, they will take the lessons they learned from the experience to build better, safer planes. The leaders whose families survived serve as a model and enjoy the added discipline for producing high quality airplanes the People's Aviation Industry can be proud of.